Example sentences of "her [noun pl] and [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She finished her notes and looked at the list of suspects . |
| 2 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 3 | Aunt Sarah 's rug needle dropped from her fingers and clattered on the stone floor . |
| 4 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 5 | Marc reached out and took the receiver from between her fingers and spoke into it . |
| 6 | Guido dropped her cases and strode across the tiled floor . |
| 7 | She now had a cigarette between her teeth and squinted against the smoke . |
| 8 | Somewhat reassured , Luce cleaned her teeth and climbed into bed . |
| 9 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 10 | For as she turned towards him , a great fall of bright copper hair , loosened by the wild chase , came cascading about her shoulders and fell to her waist , enveloping her in a rippling sheet of flame . |
| 11 | Hair , streaked with the colours of the sun , tumbled down her back and over her shoulders and swung in waves as she shimmied down the catwalk . |
| 12 | It started in her toes and across her shoulders and squirmed through her , aching , sweet . |
| 13 | I held her shoulders and reached through her to Daine . |
| 14 | He slung an arm around her shoulders and grinned at Jake . |
| 15 | She threw her shawl around her shoulders and hurried from the house . |
| 16 | Iris picked up her pyjamas and headed for the bathroom . |
| 17 | Shiona gathered up her pyjamas and headed for the bathroom , her mind retracing the events of the night . |
| 18 | She went into the tiny bedroom , stripped off her tights and slipped into a loose T-shirt and boxer shorts . |
| 19 | He parted her thighs and travelled down her , skin and material , and thrust the dress away , and began his second kiss . |
| 20 | Then she sat on the bed , trying not to wince as Louise rubbed cream into her thighs and pounded at them enthusiastically . |
| 21 | She pursed her lips and looked at Thérèse . |
| 22 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 23 | She pursed her lips and stared at him with her grey eyes . |
| 24 | The nurse made a funny sucking noise with her lips and stared at Meg . |
| 25 | His tongue , hot and sweet , tempted open her lips and slipped into her mouth . |
| 26 | She opened her eyes and froze with horror and disbelief at the sight of a vast creature staring down at her with green eyes each as big as a lilypond . |
| 27 | Susan shut her eyes and saw through her monster 's . |
| 28 | She shut her eyes and tugged at the rope , sending the boat soaring high up over the scruffy , stinking little fair and the bare-headed people and the wide , comfortable , pleasure-loving river . |
| 29 | She worked for a while in a shop , then she began to have trouble with her eyes and took in work at home . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's enough , ’ she whispered , looking away from his intense stare in case he read the truth in her eyes and recoiled from it . |